We all have a role to play in this pandemic. For the majority of us, it's to stay home, stay away from others, and do our best to manage our lives through the next few weeks of social distancing.
For some, unanswered questions are a cause of stress, but for others, the stress is more acute and focused - people who have loved ones who are sick, or those fighting the disease on the front lines, in hospitals across North Carolina.
We talk today with Shevaun Neupert. She's a professor of psychology at N.C. State University and researches stress. Neupert explains the difference between regular, everyday stress, and the chronic variety we are feeling now.
Neupert also has an ongoing research effort, focused specifically on pandemic stress. The survey is available on MTurk. Once you click on the "get started with Amazon Mechanical Turk" button and register, you can find the study by title (Reactions to COVID-19 Pandemic) and receive monetary compensation for participating.
